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Shawn_Something··on Why are the artists still starving?
and one day these starving software engineers will be starving game devs or farmers
Shawn_Something··on Why are the artists still starving?
that makes a lot of sense.

I was deffs about to reply with "passion doesn't pay for dinner" until I read the whole thing.

You are right with individual kickstarters or Patreon, but that limits the scale at which something can operate at as a sole trader or small business.

There is another issue with market, these platforms don't have great discovery, while platforms that do get drowned out with free and mediocre content.

It's not impossible, just way harder

Shawn_Something··on Show HN: Conversational AI agents for internal tools
Thank you!
Shawn_Something··on Show HN: Conversational AI agents for internal tools
This looks really cool! Tools like Retool are great, but they tend to be yet another thing to maintain in the long run, adding to the cognitive load.

Would there be a means of limiting which services and functions each query can call manually to impose more specified guardrails? and how is the “human in the loop” thing enforced?

Shawn_Something··on 3 Lessons from Building a Chrome Extension with TypeScript
from someone who has never made a Chrome Extension and never used TypeScript